Liza Dalby

Liza Dalby is an anthropologist specializing in Japanese culture. As the only Westerner to have become a geisha, which she did as research for her Ph.D.
and her books Geisha and Kimono, she was a consultant for Steven Spielberg's film adaptation of Arthur Golden's Memoirs of a Geisha.
She lives in Berkeley, California, with her husband and three children.

Praise

"The Tale of Murasaki . . . transports its readers to another world."

Laura Miller, Salon.com

"Luscious, lush and languorously elegant . . ."

USA Today on The Tale of Murasaki

"An engrossing account of a society shrouded by centuries of mystery."

The San Francisco Chronicle on Geisha

"Hidden Buddhas may well be Liza Dalby's best work yet; with its fascinating story of characters caught up in a world they themselves don't understand. Besides taking us on a journey through little-known corners of Japan, it offers us an engaging and believable portrait of people driven to do things they may not have imagined."